Accessibility Statement

Standards Compliance

• Pages on this site are mostly Bobby AA approved, complying with most Bobby guidelines. This is always a judgement call; many accessibility features can be measured, but many can not. We believe that these pages are mostly in compliance.
• All pages on this site is WCAG AA approved, complying wih all priority 1,and 2 guidelines of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Again, this is a judgement call; many guidelines are intentionally vague and can not be tested automatically. We have reviewed all the guidelines and believe that all these pages are in compliance.
• All pages on this site are Section 508 approved, complying with all of the U.S. Federal Government Section 508 Guidelines. Again, a judgement call. We have reviewed all the guidelines and believe that all these pages are in compliance .
• All pages on this site validate as XHTML 1.0 Strict apart from the home page that validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional. This is not a judgement call; a program can determine with 100% accuracy whether a page is valid XHTML. For example, check the home page for XHTML validity.
• All pages on this site use structured semantic markup. h3 tags are used for main titles, h4 and h5 tags for subtitles.

Links

• Many links have title attributes which describe the link in greater detail, unless the text of the link already fully describes the target (such as the headline of an article or name of a person).
• Links are written to make sense out of context.

Images

• All content images used in this site include descriptive ALT attributes. Purely decorative graphics include null ALT attributes.

Lists

• Many lists have title attributes which describe the content of the list in greater detail. Elements are marked up as lists if they follow a logical, structured order.

Visual Design

• This site uses cascading style sheets for visual layout.
• This site uses only relative font sizes, compatible with the user-specified "text size" option in visual browsers.
• If your browser or browsing device does not support stylesheets at all, the content of each page is still readable.
• While JavaScript may be used on this web site by modern browsers, the site is still readable if JavaScript is disabled.

Web Standard Compliant Browsers

Modern web browsers provide more facilities and capabilities for standards compliancy and accessibility.

An example of modern browsers include the following:

• For all the major computer operating system platforms
  • Mozilla Firefox (latest version)
  • Mozilla (latest version)
  • Opera
• Specifically for a PC (Windows)
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 or higher
    [Note, this browser is a “stagnant” though relatively modern browser. Indications from Microsoft suggest that development on this browser may be halted for some time, so innovations in browser/web technologies and accessibility features are more likely to appear in the other browsers mentioned. This browser also lags behind most others in technical features, though is the most dominant in usage by far.
    Furthermore, the U.S. government's Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has warned Web surfers to stop using Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser, due to significant vulnerability issues in its security model, which the company has been failing to correct.]
• Specifically for a Mac (e.g. OS X)
  • Safari
  • Camino
• Specifically for Linux
  • Konquero

Accessibility references

• W3 accessibility guidelines, which explains the reasons behind each guideline.
• U.S. Federal Government Section 508 accessibility guidelines

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